selenium.common.exceptions.ElementNotVisibleException: Message: element not visible while trying to access an element with Python + Selenium

Question

I am trying to enter username and password in the following website: https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/sign-in

driver = webdriver.Chrome()
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Answer 1

There are two problems:

• The first one is timing, it takes some time for the form to appear. You you can use explicit wait to solve it.
• The second one is that the field id in tag, not

  tag, and there are many fields that matches this xpath. I suggest you locate the form holding the fields and use it to locate each field

For the timing issue you can use explicit wait

from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC

driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get('https://www.TheGreatCoursesPlus.com/sign-in')
form = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH, '//div[@class="modal-body"]//form')))

form.find_element_by_name('email').send_keys(email)
form.find_element_by_name('password').send_keys(password)
form.find_element_by_name('sign-in-button').click()